Day of the year
November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 56 days remain until the end of the year.
- 1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
- 1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
- 1913 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
- 1914 – World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- 1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
- 1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
- 1917 – Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
- 1940 – World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
- 1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
- 1943 – World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
- 1945 – The three-day anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania commence.[5]
- 1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
- 1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
- 1956 – Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.
- 1968 – Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
- 1970 – The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
- 1983 – The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
- 1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949.
- 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
- 1991 – Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people.[6]
- 1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
- 1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.
- 1996 – Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
- 2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
- 2007 – The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
- 2009 – U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
- 2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
- 2015 – An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
- 2015 – Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- 2017 – Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
- 2021 – The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized[7]
- 1607 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter (d. 1678)
- 1613 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet and educator (d. 1691)
- 1615 – Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
- 1666 – Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (d. 1729)
- 1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
- 1688 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1757)[8]
- 1701 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator (d. 1785)
- 1705 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (d. 1770)
- 1715 – John Brown, English author and playwright (d. 1766)
- 1722 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (d. 1798)
- 1739 – Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (d. 1819)
- 1742 – Richard Cosway, English painter (d. 1821)
- 1789 – William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (d. 1868)
- 1818 – Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
- 1835 – Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher (d. 1902)
- 1846 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
- 1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
- 1851 – Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
- 1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920)
- 1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- 1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926)
- 1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (d. 1913)
- 1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, reformer, and educator (d. 1944)[9]
- 1870 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1925)
- 1873 – Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (d. 1935)
- 1879 – Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (d. 1963)
- 1881 – George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1961)
- 1883 – P Moe Nin, Burmese author and translator (d. 1940)
- 1884 – James Elroy Flecker, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1915)
- 1885 – Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (d. 1981)
- 1886 – Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (d. 1961)
- 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator (d. 1961)
- 1890 – Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1977)
- 1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964)
- 1892 – John Alcock, captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (d. 1919)
- 1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986)
- 1894 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (d. 1960)
- 1895 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (d. 1956)
- 1895 – Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1956)
- 1899 – Margaret Atwood Judson, American historian and author (d. 1991)[10]
- 1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1900 – Ethelwynn Trewavas, British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (d. 1993)
- 1901 – Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
- 1901 – Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge and politician (d. 1972)[11]
- 1901 – Eddie Paynter, English cricketer (d. 1979)
- 1904 – Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)
- 1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1905 – Louis Rosier, French racing driver (d. 1956)
- 1905 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973)
- 1906 – Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944)
- 1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004)
- 1910 – John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (d. 1997)
- 1911 – Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (d. 2010)
- 1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist and actor (d. 1998)[12]
- 1912 – W. Allen Wallis, American economist and statistician (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (d. 1967)[12]
- 1913 – John McGiver, American actor (d. 1975)
- 1914 – Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
- 1917 – James Lawton Collins Jr., American brigadier general (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Giuseppe Salvioli, Italian football player
- 1919 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar and critic (d. 1978)
- 1919 – Myron Floren, American accordionist and pianist (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
- 1921 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1994)
- 1921 – Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
- 1922 – Violet Barclay, American illustrator (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Yitzchok Scheiner, American-Israeli rabbi (d. 2021)
- 1922 – Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founder of Der Spiegel (d. 2002)
- 1926 – John Berger, English author, poet, painter and critic (d. 2017)
- 1927 – Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (d. 2009)
- 1930 – Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2016)
- 1930 – Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (d. 2015)
- 1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist and academic (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Gil Hill, American actor, police officer and politician (d. 2016)
- 1931 – Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (d. 1971)
- 1931 – Diane Pearson, British book editor and novelist (d. 2017)
- 1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2007)[12]
- 1932 – Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)
- 1933 – Herb Edelman, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1934 – Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Lester Piggott, English flat racing jockey and trainer (d. 2022)
- 1935 – Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
- 1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
- 1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer (d. 2022)
- 1936 – Billy Sherrill, American record producer, songwriter and arranger (d. 2015)
- 1937 – Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore
- 1937 – Harris Yulin, American actor[13]
- 1938 – Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
- 1938 – Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator
- 1939 – Lobsang Tenzin, Tibetan religious leader
- 1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American soldier, lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon
- 1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress[13]
- 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[13]
- 1941 – Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter
- 1941 – Bill Schlesinger, American baseball player (d. 2023)[14]
- 1942 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and author (d. 2007)
- 1943 – Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper (d. 2022)
- 1943 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (d. 2017)[12]
- 1945 – Peter Pace, American general
- 1945 – Aleka Papariga, Greek accountant and politician
- 1945 – Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach
- 1946 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)[12]
- 1947 – Quint Davis, American director and producer
- 1947 – Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter and guitarist[13]
- 1948 – Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician
- 1948 – Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author
- 1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
- 1949 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)[12]
- 1950 – Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway
- 1950 – James Kennedy, American psychologist and author
- 1952 – Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer and manager
- 1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
- 1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2024)[15][16]
- 1953 – Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author and academic
- 1954 – Vincenzo D'Amico, Italian footballer (d. 2023) [17]
- 1954 – Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and manager (d. 2020)
- 1954 – Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and academic
- 1955 – Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist and academic
- 1955 – Kris Jenner, American talent manager and businesswoman[13]
- 1955 – Nestor Serrano, American actor[13]
- 1955 – Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author
- 1956 – Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (d. 1999)
- 1956 – John Harwood, American journalist
- 1956 – Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019)
- 1956 – Michael Sorridimi, Australian rugby league player
- 1956 – Jeff Watson, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1957 – Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1958 – Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter and producer
- 1958 – Mo Gaffney, American actress and screenwriter[13]
- 1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor[13]
- 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor[13]
- 1959 – Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer
- 1960 – René Froger, Dutch singer-songwriter
- 1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress[13]
- 1960 – Mark West, American basketball player[18]
- 1961 – Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (d. 2012)
- 1962 – Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (d. 2015)
- 1962 – Michael Gaston, American actor[13]
- 1962 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer and manager
- 1962 – Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist and author
- 1963 – Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer and scout
- 1963 – Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer[13]
- 1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author[13]
- 1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer and manager
- 1963 – Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter
- 1965 – Atul Gawande, American surgeon and journalist
- 1965 – Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress[13]
- 1965 – Angelo Moore, American singer and musician[13]
- 1966 – James Allen, English journalist and sportscaster
- 1966 – Nayim, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1966 – Urmas Kirs, Estonian footballer and manager
- 1967 – Judy Reyes, American actress and producer
- 1968 – Ricardo Fort, Argentinian actor, director and businessman (d. 2013)
- 1968 – Seth Gilliam, American actor[13]
- 1968 – Sam Rockwell, American actor[13]
- 1969 – Pat Kilbane, American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter
- 1970 – Javy López, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
- 1971 – Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1971 – Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter[13]
- 1971 – Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer and coach
- 1971 – Corin Nemec, American actor, producer and screenwriter[19]
- 1971 – Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer
- 1973 – Johnny Damon, American baseball player[20]
- 1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and manager
- 1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[13]
- 1974 – Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer and coach
- 1974 – Taine Randell, New Zealand rugby player
- 1974 – Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1975 – Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter
- 1976 – Sebastian Arcelus, American actor[13]
- 1976 – Mr. Fastfinger, Finnish guitarist and songwriter
- 1977 – Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
- 1977 – Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
- 1978 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)[21]
- 1978 – Bubba Watson, American golfer[12]
- 1979 – Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
- 1979 – Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
- 1979 – Keith McLeod, American basketball player
- 1979 – David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach
- 1980 – Jaime Camara, Brazilian racing driver
- 1980 – Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor[13]
- 1980 – Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician
- 1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
- 1980 – Orkun Uşak, Turkish footballer
- 1981 – Paul Chapman, Australian footballer
- 1981 – Ümit Ergirdi, Turkish footballer
- 1982 – Leah Culver, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founder of Pownce
- 1982 – Bryan LaHair, American baseball player
- 1982 – Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1982 – Matthew Williams, Welsh footballer
- 1983 – Alexa Chung, English model and television host
- 1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
- 1983 – Juan Morillo, Dominican baseball player
- 1984 – Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
- 1984 – Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1984 – Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler
- 1984 – Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan long-distance runner
- 1984 – John Sutton, Australian rugby league player
- 1984 – Nick Tandy, English racing driver
- 1984 – Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Michel Butter, Dutch runner
- 1985 – Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Annet Mahendru, American actress[13]
- 1986 – BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actress
- 1986 – Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
- 1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
- 1986 – Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
- 1987 – Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor[22]
- 1987 – Jason Kelce, American football player[23]
- 1987 – O. J. Mayo, American basketball player[24]
- 1988 – Yannick Borel, French fencer[25]
- 1988 – Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
- 1989 – D. J. Kennedy, American basketball player[26]
- 1991 – Flume, Australian DJ and producer
- 1991 – Jon Gray, American baseball player[27]
- 1991 – Shōdai Naoya, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1992 – Odell Beckham Jr., American football player[28]
- 1992 – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
- 1993 – Hideya Tawada, Japanese actor and model[29]
- 1994 – Astou Ndour-Fall, Senegalese-Spanish basketball player[30]
- 1995 – Trey Lyles, Canadian basketball player[31]
- 1997 – Jordan Bone, American basketball player[32]
- 2002 – Matty Beniers, American ice hockey player[33]
- 425 – Atticus, archbishop of Constantinople
- 964 – Fan Zhi, chancellor of the Song Dynasty (b. 911)
- 1011 – Mathilde, Abbess of Essen (b. 949)
- 1176 – Diego Martínez de Villamayor, Castilian nobleman
- 1235 – Elisabeth of Swabia, queen consort of Castile and León (b. 1205)
- 1370 – Casimir III the Great, Polish king (b. 1310)
- 1450 – John IV, Count of Armagnac (b. 1396)
- 1459 – John Fastolf, English soldier (b. 1380)
- 1515 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter and educator (b. 1474)
- 1559 – Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter and educator (b. 1476)
- 1605 – Nyaungyan Min, Birmese king (b. 1555)
- 1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (b. 1591)
- 1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (b. 1599)
- 1701 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1659)
- 1714 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (b. 1633)
- 1752 – Carl Andreas Duker, German scholar and jurist (b. 1670)
- 1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian-Danish bishop and missionary (b. 1686)
- 1807 – Angelica Kauffman, painter (b. 1741)[34]
- 1872 – Thomas Sully, English-American painter (b. 1783)
- 1876 – Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
- 1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (b. 1831)
- 1923 – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (b. 1880)
- 1928 – Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (b. 1872)
- 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- 1930 – Luigi Facta, Italian politician, journalist and Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1861)
- 1931 – Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (b. 1866)
- 1933 – Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1884)
- 1933 – Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
- 1938 – Thomas Dewing, American painter and educator (b. 1851)
- 1939 – Mary W. Bacheler, American physician and Baptist medical missionary (b. 1860)[35]
- 1941 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (b. 1905)
- 1942 – George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, composer, author and theatre manager/owner (b. 1878)
- 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
- 1946 – Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (b. 1877)
- 1950 – Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (b. 1863)[36]
- 1951 – Reggie Walker, South African runner (b. 1889)
- 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b. 1883)
- 1956 – Art Tatum, American pianist and composer (b. 1909)
- 1960 – Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1960 – Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (b. 1895)
- 1960 – August Gailit, Estonian author and poet (b. 1891)
- 1960 – Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
- 1960 – Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
- 1963 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (b. 1902)
- 1964 – Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor (b. 1916)
- 1964 – Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
- 1971 – Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 1972 – Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1898)
- 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
- 1975 – Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (b. 1905)
- 1977 – René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (b. 1926)
- 1977 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
- 1977 – Alexey Stakhanov, Russian-Soviet miner, the Stakhanovite movement has been named after him (b. 1906)[37]
- 1979 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
- 1980 – Louis Alter, American musician (b. 1902)
- 1981 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924)
- 1985 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (b. 1898)
- 1985 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
- 1986 – Adolf Brudes, German race car driver (b. 1899)
- 1986 – Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 1986 – Bobby Nunn, American singer (b. 1925)
- 1987 – Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (b. 1922)
- 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (b. 1903)
- 1991 – Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician (b. 1923)
- 1991 – Fred MacMurray, American actor and businessman (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Adile Ayda, Russian-Turkish engineer and diplomat (b. 1912)
- 1992 – Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
- 1992 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1900)[38]
- 1996 – Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
- 1997 – James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1946)
- 1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian, author, and academic (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Peter Jackson, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster (b. 1964)
- 1999 – James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 1999 – Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (b. 1920)
- 2000 – Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1899)
- 2000 – Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b. 1926)
- 2001 – Roy Boulting, English director and producer (b. 1913)
- 2001 – Milton William Cooper, American radio host, author, and activist (b. 1943)
- 2003 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Donald Jones, American-Dutch actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1932)
- 2005 – John Fowles, English novelist (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (b. 1912)
- 2005 – Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
- 2009 – Félix Luna, Argentinian lawyer, historian, and academic (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress and singer (b. 1944)
- 2010 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer-songwriter, director, and poet (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Olympe Bradna, French-American actress and dancer (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (b. 1908)
- 2012 – Leonardo Favio, Argentinian actor, singer, director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Bob Kaplan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Louis Pienaar, South African lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor and screenwriter (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Tony Iveson, English soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
- 2013 – Charles Mosley, English genealogist and author (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Charlie Trotter, American chef and author (b. 1959)
- 2013 – Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1930)
- 2014 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (b. 1921)
- 2014 – Lane Evans, American lawyer and politician (b. 1951)
- 2014 – Wally Grant, American ice hockey player (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French author, poet, and scholar (b. 1946)
- 2015 – George Barris, American engineer and car designer (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
- 2015 – Soma Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1939)
- 2015 – Czesław Kiszczak, Polish general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (b. 1930)
- 2020 – Geoffrey Palmer, English actor (b. 1927)[39]
- 2021 – Marília Mendonça, Brazilian singer (b. 1995)[40]
- 2022 – Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer and actor (b. 1987)[41]
- 2023 – Pat E. Johnson, American martial artist and actor (b. 1939)[42]
Holidays and observances
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